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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-04-23 11:25:31 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-04-23 11:25:31 +0200
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Merge branch 'tracing/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index e2202e93b148..21a99474df93 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -784,8 +784,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
as early as possible in order to facilitate early
boot debugging.
- ftrace_dump_on_oops
+ ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
[FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
+ If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
+ buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
+ dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
+ oops.
ftrace_filter=[function-list]
[FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
index 03485bfbd797..52011815c905 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
@@ -1337,12 +1337,14 @@ ftrace_dump_on_oops must be set. To set ftrace_dump_on_oops, one
can either use the sysctl function or set it via the proc system
interface.
- sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1
+ sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=n
or
- echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops
+ echo n > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops
+If n = 1, ftrace will dump buffers of all CPUs, if n = 2 ftrace will
+only dump the buffer of the CPU that triggered the oops.
Here's an example of such a dump after a null pointer
dereference in a kernel module: